Two

  "Rea, hurry up or we'll be late". Annalia calls out to me angrily, from her voice I can tell she is anxious and slightly nervous. It is our first day of college so I can understand her. We had overslept this morning. I really wished that I didn't watch that late night movie.

  "I'm coming, just keep your mouth shut for a while". I shout back still trying to style my hair while looking for my sneakers. No, I am not that disorganized, I am just looking for a particular one. Annalia comes barging into the room and I could tell she is really pissed.

  "What the heck". She shrieks looking at my state.

I give her my best puppy dog look, knowing fully well that she isn't going to fall for it and whisper. "I'm sorry". She just sighs and push me onto the bed softly. "Where are your shoes?".

  "It's on top of the wardrobe, I want to wear the red one". I say softly. I finally remember where I put it. I am feeling quite bad that I'm going to make us late.

She stretches her hands and her toes and then brings it down. "It's okay, we'll make it in time if we're fast enough it's 7:25". She loosens the lace of my sneakers and motions for me to put my leg in. I did, still trying to get my hair done. It being tangled is making it quite difficult for me to style, I am trying to plait it into pigtails. I give up and decided to do a ponytail. She is presently tying the second sneaker lace and I am done with my hair. I grab my bag from my study table, grab her hand and run out the door. 

  "Hold on let me lock the door". I nod and let her do just that.

  "What's the time?". I ask shivering but not from the cold air. The tension is starting to get to me. We run, more like jump, down the staircase.

  "7:30". She replys as we run out the gate hoping to see a cab soon. We could go by foot but we are already late. Our first lecture is starting by 8pm and I silently pray that we will make it in time. Ugh why didn't we just call a cab while we were still inside.

  "Hey taxi".  Annalia whistles and put her thumb out.

  "Come on". Annalia calls out jolting me. She is already in the cab. I was so lost in thought that I didn't even notice.

  "Bayweach College". She tells the driver, he nods and drives off.

We get to school twenty minutes minutes later. We're so lucky that the man decides to drop us in front of our building. 

We rush into the Engineering building and see where our Calculus class is going to be held. As we are about to enter, Anna head-butts someone. She rubs her forehead and lets out groan. "Aww come on seriously, can't you see where..."  She looks up and sees the face and immediately I knew what she was thinking.

Damn, the guy is really hot. Lean, muscular and he is slightly towering over us. Maybe a 6'4, I guess. I and Anna are pretty tall girls, she being 5'11 and I 6'0. But then we still have to look up in order to see his face well. He looks like a Latino.

  "Are you okay?". He asks softly looking at Anna and then I slip by him and walk into the class stifling a chuckle. I definitely know that she is smitten.

ANNALIA’S POV

"Are you okay?" The hot male in front of me asks. 

Oh my! I think I have forgotten how to speak. I watch as Andrea slips by him and walks into the class trying to hold back a laugh. What, she is supposed to be here with me, by my side.

  "Uhmm..." I look up at the guy in front of me, he scratches the back of his head and gives me a quizzical look.

  "Oh, ri... right. I'm okay".  I mentally face palm my self for stuttering. 

He gives me a smile and nods. "I'm really sorry". 

  "It's okay, I wasn't even paying attention to where I was heading, so it's my fault too". I use my palm to cover my mouth shut quickly as I finish the sentence. Damn I had said that so fast.

  "Okay then, bye". He says giving me a heartwarming smile. 

I'm such an idiot. I acted so so... I didn't even know the word to use.

I separate my palm from my mouth and go into the class. There are a few people already sitting so it wasn't so hard to find Rea. I see her looking at me with a silly smile, I walk over to where she was sitting in the fifth row still feeling embrassed from earlier and I know she is going to rub it in. I take a sit beside her then turn to face her. "Don't even start".

But Rea being Rea didn't even acknowledge what I said.

  "Did... you... see what... you did there..., Damn that was hilarious". She says in-between laughs, clutching her stomach. I look at her and don't even know what to tell her and then I burst out laughing too. "I know right, I feel so embrassed right now". I say catching my breath.

  "Yeah, you actually acted like you haven't seen a hot guy before".

I give her a smile and lean back, crossing my hands on my chest and putting up my legs on the desk.  "No of course not, I have a thing for hot guys". I tell her wiggling my brows. "He's pretty good looking, with a lean muscular build and a super cute smile and a beautiful Olive skin, too bad I couldn't take his number". I bring my legs down from the my desk and lean my hand on it.

  "Aw, maybe you can take his number later, when you see him".

  "Yeah right, and I'm supposed to see him where? The chances of us running into each other again are quite slim and even if we do, I still can't ask for his number". It is true though, I wasn't sure about running into him again. He didn't even look like someone that is in the first year, he was probably on his way out after seeing someone in this class.

  "And you wouldn't ask because..." Rea prods giving me a look.

  "Because I made a fool out of myself dummy, I..."

  "Good morning class, my name is Professor Patrick and I will be taking you on Calculus this year". I look up to see a deep voice give the class an announcement. He is an elderly man with grey hairs sticking out here and there. I look around the class and notice that it is almost filled up. Hmm, they must have come in while I was talking to Rea.

  "Okay I need you to bring out your calculus text book and open to page sixty five, today we will be looking at..."

The lecture ends an hour later, we file out of the class and damn my head is on fire. I've always had slight problems with calculations but Rea is always there to help me out. She's really smart, we are both studying engineering but different branches. She is studying Chemical engineering and I, Biomedical engineering.

  "Come on let's go eat something and then we'll review what was taught today okay". I smile and link my arm with hers. 

  "You know me so well".

We walk to the closest outdoor food shack and buy snacks and then look around to find where we were going to sit. We see an empty table ahead and walk over there.

  "So what class do you have next". Rea asks while dipping some fries into the sauce and putting it in her mouth.

  "Well I have biology next, what about you". Since we were studying different fields we had some classes separately.

  "Uhm, I don't really know, when I'm done eating I'll check".

  "Oh, okay". I nod.

We talk about some things as we ate; the school environment, the kind of people we've met so far and our studies.

  "You know, I've been looking over your shoulder for sometime and that latino dude we saw earlier has been looking at our table. He's totally checking you out". She says and gives me a huge cheeky grin.

  "Eat your food Rea or  you hand it over". I try taking her food to make my point but she slaps my hand out of the way.

  "If you think I'm kidding, see for yourself. He's in front of the red coloured stall".

I turn and pretend as though I am looking elsewhere while I in reality I was searching for the red stall. I see him but he isn't staring at our table anymore, now he is actually talking to a blonde haired guy and then he catches my eye and gives me that same heartwarming smile. I quickly turn back to our table, my cheeks red. I must have looked like a creep. "Reaaa.." I drawl. "He was talking to someone, you just made me turn around for no reason". 

I knew Rea was telling the truth but I wasn't going to give her that satisfaction.

   "Oh please shut it, you know what I said is the truth, now get your silly ass up and go get his number". 

I give her a weird look. "I'm not doing that don't be silly".

She says nothing and just gives me a smile. Boy, I definitely know what that smile implies.